305 HAV INTERNATIONAL IMPROV FEST '22 (6TH EDITION)
Directed by Choreographer/Transdisciplinary artist Alexey Taran (www.alexeytaran.com) and multimedia artist Carla Forte (www.fortecarla.com), the 305 INTERNATIONAL IMPROV FEST is a festival that promotes the art of improvisation in performance and film. This year 305 & Havana International Improv Fest presents screenings and performances that deepen into the art of improvisation, bringing together performing artists, filmmakers and audiences across the city.
The 305HAVIIF VII Edition partnering venues includes the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, INKUB8, Plataforma Canibal (Barranquilla, Colombia, Cinemateca Dominicana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Sala Cabrujas Alcaldia del Municipio Chacao (Caracas, Venezuela).
The 305HAVIIF VII Edition partnering venues includes the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, INKUB8, Plataforma Canibal (Barranquilla, Colombia, Cinemateca Dominicana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Sala Cabrujas Alcaldia del Municipio Chacao (Caracas, Venezuela).
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YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO DESTROY ME (Lobby Installation 6'42" CUBA)
Yo te podría decir muchas cosas pero… No sé como vas a tomar mi audio Director and Performer Cesar Saavedra Graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Ballet Fernando Alonso in 2018, won the award for best interpretation with his own choreography GLORAFIN in the 1st International Competition for Students and Teachers and having received a summer course at the Washington Ballet, both in 2016, he was part of the Contemporary Dance Company of Cuba (DCC) from June 2017 to December 2019. Subsequently in Acosta Danza from December 2019 to May 2020. His performances with the Contemporary Dance Company of Cuba include: CONSAGRACION and LOS AMORES DE MARTE Y VENUS, Sala García Lorca del Gran Teatro de la Habana, Alicia Alonso and REQUIEM, Auditorio Nacional de Ciudad México 2018. Parallel to his work in the Companies, he researches in the field of video-dance and NFTs, makes performances and choreographies of her own authorship. He presented "TRANSFIGURACION" at Fabrica de Arte Cubano, as part of the Project Tecnologías que danzan 2018 and in 2019 collateral to the XIII Havana Biennial. He is currently working as a dancer with MiCompañia directed by Susana Pous. He has received many workshops from dancers and choreographers like Abel Rojo, Osnel Delgado, Lea Anderson, Radhuane El Meddeb, Fleur Darkin, Miguel Altunaga, Christopher Beránger y Jonathan Pranlas-Descours, Alexey Taran, Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo, among others. |
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JURAME (9'01" US/Cuba)
In this collaboration between choreographer and dancer Rosario Cárdenas and experimental filmmaker Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez, inspired in a series of recordings by Mexican soprano Hilda Licona Acosta dating back to the 1940s and 50s, a mature woman engages in a nostalgic dialogue with her own body, uncovering the reservoir of emotions, sensations, and erotic power that lies therein. Concept, Performance, Wardrobe: Rosario Cárdenas Direction, Editing, Post Production, Sound Design: Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez Cinematography: Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez, Martiza Deschapelles, Ricardo Rodríguez Gómez Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez is a filmmaker and artist working in experimental film, installation and visual art, with an international career spanning over 40 years, and winner of such awards as the Knight New Work Award (Miami, 2009) and various international awards, fellowships and residencies in over a dozen countries. Rosario Cárdenas (National Dance Prize, Cuba, 2013) is a distinguished dancer and choreographer, director of the Compañía Rosario Cárdenas, and recipient of various national and international accolades over the course of a career that spans over 50 years. |
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LEMUS (3'59" Cuba)
La calle de tu infancia y un recuerdo recurrente de vergüenza y desnudez que te corrompe el alma. Volver allí, a la mujer fragmentada, al sentimiento de desintegración y de pérdida, para reconstruirse. Encontrarse con pasos ya dados, caminar sobre pasos ya dados, no poder escapar. Volver volver volver, y coquetear con la locura. Dirección y producción Ixchel Casado Pérez y Lía Tamame Safonts Fotografía: Lía Tamame Safonts Edición: Ixchel Casado Pérez Corrección de color Gerard Martínez Rodríguez Coreografía e interprete Thais Doimeadios Música original Pepe Gavilondo |
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A CHAIR IS A CHAIR (4'34" US)
An invitation turned confession captures the secret and spiritual side of meaningful objects. Using excerpts from letters in the book Amado Señor by Argentinian author Pablo Katchadjian, A chair is a chair is a mystical study of a chair and other objects by window light. The shape of a chair, our thoughts of the chair, its front, its back, its side, its past and present, its feelings and our experience as a chair become personal and intimate. We hear her witnessing a conversation. Her past amplifies and so do minimal gestures in the presence of natural light. A chair is a chair was filmed while in residency at Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina, 2018 and edited in 2020, during long periods of reflection and observation afforded by the lock-down. Director Roxana Barba Roxana Barba, born and raise in Lima, Peru is a Miami-based artist, whose practice incorporates interdisciplinary uses of performance, video art, installation and mixed media. At times minimalistic and meditative, and at times layered with multi-sensory storytelling, her work gestures towards personal and cosmic paradigms. Roxana seeks to often disarm power structures by drawing connections between healing rituals and delicate atmospheres that strive to use poetry as a gesture of denunciation. Her interest in cross-disciplinary work has received support from The Knight Foundation and South Florida PBS, as well as commissions from Miami Light Project, PAXy and Foundation for Emerging Arts and Technologies. Roxana has also developed site-specific performances at Perez Art Museum Miami and Miami Performance Festival and screened and toured her films internationally. She is currently working on her new research-based performance pieces Apuntes Americanos, to be presented in June, 2022 in Lima, Peru in co-production with the Alianza Cultural Francesa de Lima and Kanay, a multidisciplinary performance in collaboration with artist Claudio Marcotulli, set to premiere late 2022 in Miami. Both works are a continuation of her artistic research into Peruvian Pre-Columbian history and cultures. Roxana pursued undergraduate visual arts studies in her native Perú prior to receiving her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts (Miami, Florida). She has been in residency at Cucalorus Film Festival (North Carolina, US), Correlacion Contemporanea (Peru) and is currently a resident artist at Laundromat Art Space in Little Haiti, Miami. |
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305 HAVIIF 22 Commissioned Artist
(NOT) TO BE REPRODUCED Created and performed by Carlos Fabián Medina "(Not) To Be Reproduced" is a performance that uses both dance and theatrical improvisation to create short representations (or reproductions) of the actor’s personal experiences. Inspired by memories, intimate spaces, songs, images, and characters, this solo piece confronts the artist with the extraordinary exercise of self-observation, reflection, and exposure. Carlos Fabián is a multidisciplinary artist from Caracas, Venezuela that works in performing and visual arts as a director, actor, videographer and creative producer. He studied philosophy at the Central University of Venezuela (Universidad Central de Venezuela - UCV) and trained as an actor in the prestigious Experimental Theater Workshop at Centro TET (Centro de Creación Artística TET) is his home city. His artistic experience includes projects as assistant director, stage manager, set and costume designer, and performer in more than 30 productions. In 2017, he held the Superior Staging Workshop with maestro Orlando Arocha at La Caja de Fósforos and that same year he won the first place in the III edition of the “Festival of Young Directors” of Trasnocho Cultural Foundation. Based in Miami since 2019, Carlos Fabián has worked with companies such as Miami New Drama, Mainstreet Players, Tectonic Theatre Project and Bistoury Physical Theatre and Film. His project LITTLE SPACES, an outdoors theatrical performance, was one of Knight Foundation’s Knight New Work 2020 winning ideas. In 2021, he started working in Miami New Drama’s MiND Theater Workshops for teenagers as an acting and corporal expression instructor. |
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SARAJEVA (3'42" Spain)
I see the time passing by, moving away, moving away. Now yes and now no, and then I don't know, like a constant farewell. On the way to more caresses and other unforeseen nudity; I couldn't tell if we are at the starting point or going through places and signs that want to stay forever in the window. But something always returns through the mist: a place, a moment, and myself. Director Writer and Producer Raimundo Morte Key Cast Eva Maria Yufra Music Architerraneo Raimundo Morte is an audiovisual and stage creator. He worked as an artistic director for 12 years in the advertising world until he decided to focus on the audiovisual and theatrical fields. He has trained as an actor, director and playwright between Buenos Aires and Barcelona with Alejandro Catalán, Javier Galitó-Cava, Mauricio Kartún, Emilio García-Wehbi and Rubén Szuchmacher, among others; he has directed several films and plays where collective creation and the transversality of languages are common elements. He also works on the accompaniment of creative processes, implementing on his workshops non-violent communication and affective responsibility tools. |
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NYX (3'55" US)
NYX is a film that explores an interdimensional encounter between wandering entities and an abandoned bunker. Through missed connections and crossing paths, the wanderers find themselves individually traveling through a sacred location hoping to encounter a greater purpose for their explorations. Using their curiosity and freedom, they discover that their journeys are interwoven across separate dimensions of space and time. Directed & Performed by Miami Movement Collective (Enrique Villacreses, Maya Billig, Cecilia Benitez, Natalia Marie Rocamonde) Edited by Enrique Villacreses Music "Night Bells" by Lotus Miami Movement Collective is the collaborative effort of multidisciplinary Miami-based freelance artists who view this city as a flourishing and abundant playground. Their main mission is to coalesce the various crafts, practices, and studies of individual artists in the Miami area to forge a unifying identity. As a collective they aim to provide safe, supportive, and experimental environments for professional creators to engage in discourse and share their creations. Their goal is to build a foundation for a longstanding model that encourages up-and-coming professional artists to cultivate their artistic voices in this unique city. |
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305 HAVIIF 22 Commissioned Artists
EVOLUTIONARY INVOLUTION by Taimy Ramos and Alberto Gonzalez Batista Setback in the progress or evolution of a process. In the past we covered our hands with soil to sow. We used to repair and reuse and lived in harmony, humans and nature. With masterful subtlety they created and introduced consumerism to our lives and this brought the normalization of the act of buying as a social concept and the erroneous idea that a greater number of material possessions is directly proportional to the level of happiness, losing all respect and gratitude for what that the earth gives us. We have become addicted to a virtual and superficial existence, totally isolated from reality. Judging and intimidating others is a source of daily entertainment, thus giving way to this state of collective apathy that we attribute to society, when in reality: you are society, I am society: We are society! Once we internalize that each individual has an essential implication in the evolution of change, we will eradicate this cycle of Evolutionary Involution from the history of humanity. Taimy Ramos was raised in Pinar del Río, Cuba and graduated from the National School of Dance in Havana in 2008 becoming a company member of Havana-based Danzabierta. With DanzAbierta, she taught and performed in several international tours in major dance festivals around Europe and America until 2016 when she moved to the US. Since then she has danced, taught and choreographed for Hedwig Dances, Concert Dance Inc and Loud Bodies in Chicago. In 2020 she decided to follow her own path as a freelance artist and created several pieces like: A feeling called Hugo, A flor de Piel (Skin Deep) and 4 walls & 1 me. Alberto Gonzalez Batista grew up in Holguín Cuba and graduated from The National School of Art in 2004, becoming a member of Codanza for 4 years. In 2008 he moved to the Capital and started working for Danza Contemporánea de Cuba as a leading dancer, participating in several international tours to: England, Mexico, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Netherland, Australia, Alemania, Suiza, Francia, Escocía, Luxemburgo, Colombia and the USA. During his time in Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Alberto worked with choreographers like: Rafael Bonachela, Angel Marguerite,George Cespedes, Julio C. Iglesias, Juan Kruz, Mats Ek, Itzik Galili, Pedro Ruiz, Jan Likens, Kenneth Kvarstrom, Susana Pous and Jan Bartosek. In 2015 he left Danza Contemporánea de Cuba and joined Racatan Company for a short period of time.Alberto also performed and toured internationally with Havana-based DanzAbierta, until 2016 when he moved to the US where he danced and taught for Hedwig Dances and Concert Dance Inc until 2020. He is currently working as a freelance artist. |
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DOLORES (7'24" US)
Dressed in her clothing and using improvised, character driven gesture and choreography, three dancers channel the complex yet playful spirit of Dolores Eugenia. Producer, Director, Dancer Gina Margillo Cinematographer Luis Eligio Editor Ricardo Trevino Dancers Nuirca Marquez and Rosie Herrera Set Design Vivan Marthell Gina Margillo works in the mediums of performance, media, writing, conceptual art, video, and collage to tell stories, deconstruct issues, and build connection. Currently a professor of Communication for Social Change at Barry University, she has a long, global career in environmental justice and sexual and reproductive justice. As such, she produced and directed radio, television, documentaries, web series and concerts to advance social movements. @Doloresproject |
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¡VIVA LA IMPRO!
Show de improvisación teatral Dirigido por Ron Chavez y con la participación de artistas invitados ¡Un espectáculo para toda la familia! Hilarantes juegos de improvisación donde el público propone lugares, personajes, situaciones y los que improvisan tienen la obligación de hacer reír a todos los presentes. Un show que te dejará con ganas de más, cada función es única e irrepetible puedes ir con amigos, tu mamá, vecinos, amantes, o con ese match de tinder que acabas de conocer. Ron Chavez nació en Caracas-Venezuela en abril de 1.982, durante su adolescencia despertó su vena artística, aprendió a tocar instrumentos de percusión y también el trombón, luego cursó estudios universitarios militares que no finalizó pero que dejaron en él una formación y disciplina inquebrantable, estudió derecho y administración de recursos humanos antes de entrar al mundo de la improvisación teatral: LA IMPRO, como él prefiere referirse a ella. Desde ese momento se enamoró y entregó por completo, tanto así que sí dedicación exclusiva lo hizo merecedor de la green card por habilidades extraordinarias al ser especialista en la técnica. En 2009 empezó formalmente sus estudios de Improvisacion teatral, fue seleccionado para formar parte del elenco estable de la compañía teatral IMPROVISTO (fundada en 2005) donde se desarrolló como actor y productor en importantes teatros de Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panamá, Chile y República Dominicana. Es egresado del Diplomado Internacional de Improvisación Teatral de la Universidad El Bosque donde se graduó con honores y fue premiado con una beca para estudiar en Improv Boston con el Maestro Will Luera. En 2011 fue invitado al Festival Internacional de Impro de Costa Rica donde compartió escenario con grandes Maestros de la improvisación teatral como Omar Argentino, Javier Monge, entre otros, ese mismo año estudio en Chile diversos formatos de impro con la Compañía ”Los Pleimovil” y el “Colectivo Teatral Mamut”. Viajó a Buenos Aires para estudiar Impro y Clown con Gonzalo Rodolico y Feña Ortalli. Durante el 2012 asistió al Festival internacional de Impro de Perú estudiando con Maestros como Omar Medina de Mexico, Paula Galimberti de España, Danna Liberman de Uruguay, Beto Urrea de Colombia y Fiorella Collman de Perú. Es el fundador de la primera agrupación de improvisación teatral conformada únicamente por adolescentes y Director del Festival de improvisación teatral de Venezuela (IMPROFEST VE). Es Co-fundador de la Escuela de Humor en Venezuela, donde en Alianza estratégica con el CIAP-UCAB, diseñaron e implementaron el primer diplomado de humor en habla hispana que hoy en día cuenta con más de 300 alumnos egresados, muchos de ellos están desempeñándose como comediantes profesionales. Ha recorrido más de 10 países para profundizar sus conocimientos y compartir su pasión por la impro. Actualmente es Director de la <Miami IMPRO Machine>, Co-Fundador de la <Escuela de Humor> en Caracas, Director del Festival Internacional de Improvisación <ImproFest Venezuela»>. Director de IMPROVISTO USA. |
Supported by:
With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council,
the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.
Miami-Dade County Auditorium
O Cinema
Vivian Marthell
Fábrica de Arte Cubano
Fundacion Cultural Chacao
Cinemateca Dominicana
Plataforma Canibal
Inkub8
Produced by Bistoury Physical Theatre and Film
Directed by Alexey Taran and Carla Forte
Cuba Sandra Ramy
Venezuela Adriana Barrios
Colombia Jaider Orsini
With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council,
the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.
Miami-Dade County Auditorium
O Cinema
Vivian Marthell
Fábrica de Arte Cubano
Fundacion Cultural Chacao
Cinemateca Dominicana
Plataforma Canibal
Inkub8
Produced by Bistoury Physical Theatre and Film
Directed by Alexey Taran and Carla Forte
Cuba Sandra Ramy
Venezuela Adriana Barrios
Colombia Jaider Orsini
